Tipton v. Brown, Director of Game and Fish

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Affirming.

Officers who work the governmental machinery of the State necessary to accomplish the purpose have been sued by Mrs. Mary C. Tipton to obtain, through the form of a writ of mandamus, what is in effect specific performance of an alleged contract to purchase from her 1,077 acres of land in Franklin and Owen Counties as a game preserve'. A judgment dismissing the petition, after sustaining a demurrer thereto, was reversed in Tipton v. Brown, 273 Ky. 496, 117 S. W. (2d) 217. Upon a trial on the merits, the chancellor again denied plaintiff any…